The Pros And Cons Of Unmanned Vehicles

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At the Fort Bliss Army base a massive construction project is under way in order to help support the Army’s 1st Armored Division. U.S Army experts on unmanned vehicles are constructing a special airport for Grey Eagle and Shadow unmanned aerial systems (UAS). The paved runway will be 5,000 feet long, with another runway one fifth the size, as well as a 50,000 square-foot hangar with an office and support buildings that contain a command and control center, a hot loading facility for munitions, and a hazardous materials building. All this will be built at Training Area 4D of the Dona Ana Range with all the thanks going to the Officials of the Fort Worth District of the Army Corps of Engineers in Fort Worth, Texas, who announced a $33 million

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